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  • Culture's revenge: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall

    Disillusioned but not defeated, Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about the limits of liberalism

  • Meme Wars (part 1)

    Evolution cannot explain culture: there are limits to the uses of Darwinism, says Adam Kuper

  • Uncommon decency

    We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty

  • Fail better

    Nina Power says the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is worth celebrating

  • Best of enemies

    Capitalism and central planning need each other, argues Steven Lukes

  • Pleasure principles

    In the second of our series on thinkers who are significant for humanism, Peter Cave marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill

  • Spinoza the atheist

    This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.

  • Meme Wars (part 2)

    Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore

  • Intelligent design

    Jonathan Derbyshire witnesses the strange death of the public thinker

  • Identity crisis

    Stressing racial differences leads to separatism, argues Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn